Asylum in Canada for a thirty gay chechen

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Saturday, September 2, 2017 14:08

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Thirty homosexuals chechens, victims of persecutions in their countries, were able to find refuge in Canada through a partnership discreet between a canadian NGO and the government, announced the NGO’s Rainbow Railroad.

Kimahli Powell, executive director of the NGO based in Toronto, said in a message Friday on his page Facebook that his body had been able to help 31 people LGBTQ to leave Russia and to enjoy asylum in Canada.

“We have worked with the canadian government with a program that has allowed the entry of Chechens LGBTQ in the country,” he said to the public broadcaster CBC, stressing that the canadian government had played a “major role”.

“Canada has secretly given asylum to Chechens gay,” wrote Saturday in the daily newspaper the Globe and Mail, noting that this initiative could “aggravate the already tense relations between Russia and Canada”.

The newspaper states that the minister of foreign Affairs asked by chrystia Freeland, who has been a correspondent of the press in Russia, has played an important role in this operation.

She was sentenced in April, persecution in Chechnya, saying in a statement that the information is “recent and on-going concerning the persecution against gay and bisexual men in Chechnya tell us that the situation objectionable”.

The canadian authorities did not comment on the announcement of Rainbow Railroad Saturday morning. The program had been kept secret for several months.

Mr. Powell explained to the Globe have decided to make public the arrival of chechen refugees, because those who wanted to come to Canada arrived there. It is now necessary to take care of their installation and their integration in the country, which requires them to talk about it, he supported it.

Rainbow Railroad, founded in 2006, is given for the purpose of helping LGBT people to flee the persecutions perpetrated by States, according to its website.